Staging pain, 1580-1800: violence and trauma in British theater

Abstract

Contents: Introduction: staging pain, Mathew R. Martin and James Robert Allard Part I Traumatic Effects: 'This Tragic glass': tragedy and trauma in Tamburlaine Part 1, Mathew R. Martin 'Uncollected man': trauma and the early modern mind-body in The Maid's Tragedy, Zackariah C. Long. Part II Pedagogies of Pain: 'These were spectacles to please my soul': inventive violence in the Renaissance revenge tragedy, Annalisa Castaldo A 'bracing' moment: Reynolds' response to Boswell and Burke on the aesthetics and ethics of public executions, William Levine. Part III Bodies (Im)Politic: Radical pity responding to spectacles of violence in King Lear, John D. Staines Cutting, branding, whipping, burning: the performance of judicial punishment in early modern England, Sarah Covington Tortured bodies, factionalism and unsettled loyalties in Settle's Morocco plays, Susan B. Iwanisziw. Part IV Spectacular Failures: Lavinia's rape: reading the Restoration actress's body in pain in Ravenscroft's Titus, Kara Reilly Sympathy pains: filicide and the spectacle of male heroic suffering on the 18th-century stage, Cecilia A. Feilla Joanna Baillie and the theater of consequence, James Robert Allard Bibliography Index.